At 11:16 AM 1/15/2003 +0100, Julien Rampon wrote:

>The diagnostic is done by the cobalt's BIOS, so if it see 64Mb, you've 
>certainly got a problem with your RAM, not form the OS

Oh, no. I just meant that was the difference from Daniel's BIOS. :) My 
Cobalt actualy shows the RAM error message about the slots, and I'll check 
into that per Daniel's email.

>Just try without bfd command and push on the left and right panel buton 
>and look what append on your console (this is the way I installed my 
>cobalts... and just work very fine)

I did, and was unsuccessful. Same results as the "bfd" manual experiement

>I had the same problem when my kernel was too big. Please, check that your 
>kernel.gz (or in this case mlinux_raq-2800.gz) is samller than 1M and 2.5M 
>uncompressed.
>You can cross-compile a kernel for cobalt on NetBSD or FreeBSD i386 (works 
>very fine), add the option "config          netbsd        root on ? type 
>nfs" and remove other option that you don't have utility to get your 
>kernel smaller.

Well, Daniel just pointed out to me that the kernel on his page wasn't 
compressed. So this is helpful information above.

Unfortunately I don't have a BSD i386 box lying around. But I'll give the 
compression a try, and fix that RAM error message, and hopefully I'll be 
writing this from a BSD box tonight. :)

>PS: be indulgent for my poor english :)

I completely understood it. I appreciate the help, Julien. :)

-- jb